The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-01-13
Communications.

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Banner: notice in your last issue
a communication from brother far
mer on the dog-tax question. I
would like to make proposition to
him through the columns of the
Banner. 1t is this: will agree to
pay him % cents for every chicken
varmints kill, if he will pay me
81 30 for every sheep killed by
worthless nigger-dogs. I would
like to hear from him.
J. E. ADGDR.
Editor Banner: Our friend, Murff,
of Bossier Point, wants Bossier to
have dog-law, and the people in
the section in which live are in
most earnest accord with him. If
our school funds be supplemented
BY the sum that would be raised
should the proposed tax of 80 30
psr head be collected upon all the
dogs Of Bossier parish, then, indeed,
| would we have schools for ten in
stead of four months. IF a. correct
census could to-day be taken of the
dogs in this parish it would astonish
the natives; and, on the other hand,
should our people refuse to pay the
tax and the dogs be slain it would
conduce more to the solvency of the
farm laborers of the parish than any
enactment of the Police Jury for
years. The difficulty of collecting
such a tax seems, in the mind of
great many, hard to be solved. We
would suggest that collars be Or
dered by the Police Jury, with a
good brass plate, marked "tax paid,
1887" and the lettering be SO done
as to prevent counterfeiting, if pos
sible; have these collars issued to
the Collector (the Sheriff., and he
charged with them at the rate of
the tax, 50 30; the unused collars
to he accounted for on settlement.
would further suggest that at least
fifty cents each be allowed the Col
lector or Sheriff for all collars sold;
that all dogs wearing these collars
be protected by law, and an amount
fixed by the Police Jury, collecta-
BILE in any Justices Court, from par
ties other than the owners, killing
said dogs; and I would have all
dogs not wearing these collars out
lawed by the same Act.
| We would 60 a little further than
our Point friend, and advocate a
hog law in Bossier parish, that is to
say, not pay special tax on hogs,
but make four wires, fastened to
posts 15 feet apart, a legal fence.
Now, let us see what Inconvenience
would result from such law. The
writer marked and turned out last
Spring So head of pigs farrowed in
the preceding September and Octo
Der, after being fed and cared for
through the Winter, and out of this
, lot has secured two for fattenine
purposes when the usual season fol-
this sort of work came round. Com.
} pairing experience with my neigh.
bors I fnd others have done even
worse than myself, securing fol
themselves only such as were KEEP
in lot at all times and fed regu
larly since they were fallowed. If
to raise our bacon or pork at home
it is necessary to keep them up a
!, all times, why, sir, should we be com
!, PEELED to keep hog proof rail fenc.
around our crops, spending, per
haps, 90 or $3 per acre on land cul
tivated in excess of the amount re
Q quired to keep cattle and horse
!, from depreciation.
trust the Police Jury at thei
: next meeting will find it consisten
with their sense of duty and RICH
to give the law suggested by GU
friend favorable consideration, and
meantime, the people of the parish